_Pat - As a career investigative reporter I
am alarmed by what has happened, what is happening and what may happen to our
country and our democracy. I believe I have a patriotic duty to try to raise
awareness and an understanding that we are being undermined by forces in both
political parties and by modern day robber barons in industry and finance.Through six years of intensive
investigation and research I am deeply concerned about three broad issues:1. Globalization and the U.S.
dependence upon a "global economy" that is unregulated, unprecedented
in world history and unexamined by the American people. It has upended our
notion of free trade, private enterprise and capitalism, but our people have
failed to ask questions about what globalization means for our well-being; now
and in the future. We are engulfed in globalization without any national
discussion of whether it is good or bad for our country.2. The Chinafication of America. The
globalists told us that by helping China become a world power we would somehow
reform their Communist dictatorship. While they have worked feverishly to
develop what some call authoritarian capitalism, they have steadfastly resisted
democracy in their politics and private free enterprise in trade. Instead, they
are changing us. Aided and abetted by greedy corporate globalists, they have
confiscated our industrial base, gutted our factories, taken our jobs and made
us economically beholden to their Communist dictatorship. Recently the Chinese Communist
government, through its state-owned corporations and banks, has started buying
significant stakes in strategically important segments of the U.S. economy.
Specifically, the Party bosses of Beijing have targeted our energy sector, our
telecommunications sector and our transportation sector. The American people
don't seem to understand there is a vast difference between a local factory
being purchased by a foreign private company such as Germany's BMW, versus that
factory being purchased by the Communist government of China. We are trying to
compete on a free-enterprise basis with government-owned corporations with
limitless funding and the ability to absorb losses in order to gain control of
entire economic sectors. China's predatory pricing in solar energy is a current
example of their plan to achieve world domination of that industry.Never before has the United States
of America allowed a foreign government, particularly an anti-democracy
Communist government, to buy a stake, and ultimate control through incremental
increases in ownership, of companies and enterprises vital to our national
economic security.3. My third area of concern is
mounting evidence that China is emerging as our next great military enemy. Iran
is a side show. The real threat is Communist China.Our military is exhausted and
depleted after two lengthy unfunded wars, but meanwhile China is relentlessly
building key segments of their armed forces. They cannot match our military,
nor do they want to. They intend to "defeat" us by attacking our weaknesses--such
as our total reliance on computerized warfare, which is vulnerable to
hacking--and by confonting us militarily in ways which will force us to back
down and lose respect in the world. They hope to defeat the U.S. military
without firing a shot--and they are developing weapons and tactics to achieve
that goal.I have been stymied by a lack of
financial and organizational support in trying to inform the American people,
but that doesn't change the importance or the urgency of what I am trying to
do.Vince Wade